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1ST DAY – MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2010 Venue: Historical Building of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, Župné námesite 12, Bratislava |
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| 12:45 - 13:00 |
OFFICIAL OPENING | ||
| AMB. (RET.) RASTISLAV KÁČER - President of the Slovak Atlantic Commission |
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| H.E. ĽUBOMÍR GALKO - Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic |
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| MILAN JEŽOVICA - State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic |
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| 13:00 - 14:30 | PANEL 1: GLOBAL AMBITIONS OF POST-LISBON EUROPE: DREAMS OR REALITY? |
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| Chairman: PAVOL DEMEŠ - Senior Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Bratislava; Former Minister of International Relations, Slovakia |
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| EDUARD KUKAN - Member of the European Parliament and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic |
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| DOMINIQUE DAVID - Executive Vice-President, Institut française des relations internationales, Paris |
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| AMB. ISTVÁN GYARMATI - President and CEO, International Centre for Democratic Transition, Budapest |
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| TOMÁŠ VALÁŠEK - Slovak Atlantic Commission; Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform, London |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Coffee Break | ||
| 15:00 - 16:30 |
PANEL 2: WORLD AFTER THE CRISIS: CONSEQUENCES FOR GLOBAL SECURITY AND POWER BALANCE |
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| Chairman: PHILIP STEPHENS - Associate Editor, Financial Times, London |
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| CAMILLE GRAND - Director, Foundation pour la recherche stratégique, Paris |
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| BRIGITA SCHMÖGNEROVÁ - Former Vice President, Environment, Procurement and Administration, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London |
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| AMB. (RET.) JOHN C. KORNBLUM - Senior Counsellor, Noerr LLP, Berlin |
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| MIRIAM L. CAMPANELLA - Associate Professor, IPE University of Turin, Former Advisor to the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance, Turin |
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| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 17:00 - 18:30 | PANEL 3: AFGHANISTAN AT CROSSROADS: SUCCESS OR VICTORY? |
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| Chairman: STEPHEN FLANAGAN - Senior Vice President and Henry A. Kissinger Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C. |
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| AMB. FRANCESC VENDRELL - Former UN and EU Special Envoy for Afghanistan; Visiting Professor at John Hopkins University, Bologna Campus; Senior Visiting Fellow at the LSE, London |
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| JENNES DE MOL - Director of the Provincial Reconstruction Team, Civilian Commander of Task Force Uruzgan |
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| ABDUL JALIL GHAFOORY - Media and Public Relations Officer, Embassy of Afghanistan in the USA, Washington D.C. |
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| 19:00 | EVENING RECEPTION HOSTED BY AMB. (RET.) RASTISLAV KÁČER, PRESIDENT OF THE SLOVAK ATLANTIC COMISSION |
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| Special Guest and Remarks: RICHARD SULÍK - Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic |
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| 21:00 |
NIGHT OWL SESSION 1: HOW WILL EU MANAGE POST-DAYTON BOSNIA?* |
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| VENUE: HOTEL FALKENSTEINER, LOBBY BAR AND RESTAURANT, PILÁRIKOVA 5, BRATISLAVA | |||
| Chairman: MILAN NIČ - Deputy Director, Office of the State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic |
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| ŠTEFAN FÜLE - Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, European Commission, Brussels |
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| MIROSLAV LAJČÁK - Former High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Former Slovak Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bratislava |
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| IVAN VEJVODA - Executive Director, Balkan Trust for Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Belgrade |
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| 21:00 |
NIGHT OWL SESSION 2: REGIONAL SECURITY INTEGRATION: NORDIC AND VISEGRAD EXPERIENCE*
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| VENUE: HOTEL FALKENSTEINER, LOBBY BAR AND RESTAURANT, PILÁRIKOVA 5, BRATISLAVA | |||
| CO-ORGANIZED BY THE INSTITUTE OF EUROPEAN STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, COMENIUS UNIVERSITY | |||
| Chairman: JOZEF BÁTORA - Associate Professor, Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Comenius University, Bratislava |
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| RÓBERT ONDREJCSÁK - State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic |
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| ESPEN BARTH EIDE - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway |
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| AMB. ISTVÁN GYARMATI - President and CEO, International Centre for Democratic Transition, Budapest |
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| BJÖRN LYRVALL - Director-General for Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden, Stockholm |
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| * Due to limited capacity of the venue, the participation at both Night Owl Sessions is possible only for guests registered in advance. | |||
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2ND DAY – TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 Venue: Historical Building of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, Župné námesite 12, Bratislava |
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| 09:30 - 11:00 | PANEL 4: EASTERN EUROPE AND EASTERN PARTNERSHIP: MUTUAL EXPECTATIONS |
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| Chairman: BALÁZS JARÁBIK - Country Representative for Belarus and Ukraine, PACT; Associate Fellow, FRIDE, Kyiv |
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| H. E. IURIE LEANCA - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova |
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| OLEKSANDR HORIN - Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine |
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| ŠTEFAN FÜLE - Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, European Commission, Brussels |
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| ANDERS ASLUND - Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C. |
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| Comments by: MIREK TOPOLÁNEK - Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in 2006 - 2009 |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 - 13:00 | PANEL 5: "THE VISEGRAD FOUR": ENERGIZED |
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| CO-ORGANIZED BY THE JAGELLO 2000 ASSOCIATION, HUNGARIAN ATLANTIC COUNCIL AND THE POLISH EURO-ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION | |||
| Chairman: AMB. (RET.) RASTISLAV KÁČER - President of the Slovak Atlantic Commission |
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| H.E. MIKULÁŠ DZURINDA - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic |
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| H.E. JÁNOS MARTONYI - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary | |||
| H.E. KAREL SCHWARZENBERG - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic | |||
| MIKOŁAJ DOWGIELWICZ - State Secretary for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland |
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| 13:00 - 14:30 | LUNCHEON HOSTED BY THE REPRESENTATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC | ||
| 14:30 - 16:00 | PANEL 6: NEW EURO-ATLANTIC SECURITY ARCHITECTURE: VALUES AND INTERESTS | ||
| CO-ORGANIZED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS |
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| KEYNOTE SPEAKER: AMB. MARC PERRIN DE BRICHAMBAUT - Secretary General of the OSCE |
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| Chairman: AMB. IVAN KORČOK - Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the European Union, Brussels |
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| H.E. NICKOLAY MLADENOV - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria |
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| AMB. VICTORIA NULAND - Special Envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. |
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| TIMOFEI BORDACHEV - Director, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, Moscow |
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| ANDREW WILSON - Senior Policy Fellow, The European Council on Foreign Relations, London |
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| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:15 - 17:45 |
PANEL 7: THE NEW STRATEGIC CONCEPT OF NATO |
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| Chairman: TOMÁŠ VALÁŠEK - Slovak Atlantic Commission; Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform, London |
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| AMB. (RET.) JERZY NOWAK - Vice President of the Board, Polish Euro-Atlantic Association; Former Ambassador of Poland to NATO, Warsaw |
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| DAMON WILSON - Vice President and Director International Security Program, Atlantic Council of the USA, Washington, D.C. |
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| JULIAN LINDLEY-FRENCH - Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy, Netherlands Defence Academy, Alphen |
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| PAUL FLAHERTY - Deputy Permanent Representative, United Kingdom Joint Delegation to NATO, Brussels |
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| 17:45 | CLOSING REMARKS AND SUMMARY | ||
| 18:00 | EVENING RECEPTION HOSTED BY H.E. ĽUBOMÍR GALKO, MINISTER OF DEFENCE OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC |
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